Officials are on alert in California and Oregon following recent reports of deadly parasites in popular rivers that are ...

California commercial salmon fishing will not happen for the third year in a row. The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to close commercial salmon season for the remainder of the year on ...

Washington Congresswoman Marie Glusenkamp Perez (D-WA-03) introduced a bill on Thursday as part of an effort to preserve the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. California officials are debating whether to cancel the salmon fishing ...

In better times, droves of young winter-run Chinook salmon would travel 300 miles downstream from the Sacramento River, beneath the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Pacific. They would return as adults ...

A rare spring-run salmon was detected this month making its way up the Klamath River into the upper basin for the first time ...

The 2025 commercial salmon fishing season in California will be closed for an unprecedented third year running, and sportfishing will be restricted to only a few days due to dwindling numbers of fish, ...

FILE: Two dead juvenile salmon sit in a bucket after being removed from a Yurok Fisheries Department rotary screw trap on the ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. After three years of unprecedented closures that devastated California’s fishing industry, commercial salmon fishing ...

William Smith has long fished the California coast for salmon, taking avid anglers out on his boat in hopes they'll get to wrestle with and reel in the prized catch. But not anymore. Smith, known as ...